Board 8 > What is the best way to grind out a shiny pokemon

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I want to get a shiny Swinub, but I know trying for a specific shiny takes forever even under the best circumstances. I know there's some method to make it easier, but I don't quite know how it works.

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cheating

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Came in to say Pro Action Replay

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Obviously, but I don't have access to a cheating device.

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Play 3 gameboys at once and once you get one go

OMGGGGGG SHINY SWINUB!

Make you you listen to Sum 41 when you do it.

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Masuda's Method.

Just breed stuff with a Japanese Ditto.

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Well in all seriousness if you're not actually above cheating then

"Get a job, make enough to buy a Pro Action Replay, buy a Pro Action Replay" is much quicker than whatever legit method exists.

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I could afford a PAR if I wanted, but I kind of want a legit one. I may cave after it ends up taking forever though.

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I actually don't mind grinding for some things in video games, but shinies are more than a few steps over my grinding threshold.

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RNG abuse is the easiest way:
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83057

It's a bit complicated, though.

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The Masuda Method. Find a regular Swinub and breed it with a foreign language pokemon, and your chances drop from 1/8200 to 1/1300, and with the right items, you can control its nature and one of its IVs, which is always helpful. I've actually hatched a shiny pokemon using this method, and it takes forever and is really boring. Make sure you have a pokemon with flame body to make the eggs hatch more quickly.

Luckily for you, some pokemon hatch more quickly than others (Dratini takes forever, for example), and I bet Swinub is one of the faster ones.

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It will take forever. In my whole career of Pokémon (which is like, 11 years long, or whenever Yellow was released here) I NEVER found a shiny naturally. I do own 2 but none I got myself.

1. Beedrill, got if as a gift from a girl
2. Ninetales, won it in some kind of forum contest on the Platinum trade board

I also got the red Gyarados.. but it's the red Gyarados.

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Lopen posted...
I actually don't mind grinding for some things in video games, but shinies are more than a few steps over my grinding threshold.

It seems mindless though, and I can watch Netflix while I do it, so it may not be awful.

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Ayuyu posted...
It will take forever. In my whole career of Pokémon (which is like, 11 years long, or whenever Yellow was released here) I NEVER found a shiny naturally. I do own 2 but none I got myself.

1. Beedrill, got if as a gift from a girl
2. Ninetales, won it in some kind of forum contest on the Platinum trade board

I also got the red Gyarados.. but it's the red Gyarados.

I'm a bit unusually lucky with Pokemon... I've got 3 Shinys (besides Gyarados and the Gerbils) and Pokerus twice. Shinies were Noctowl (Crystal), Illumise (Emerald), and Boldore (White)

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I got the Pokérus though ! Thrice..

Yeah, my luck is all over the freaking place.

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The Masuda Method. Find a regular Swinub and breed it with a foreign language pokemon, and your chances drop from 1/8200 to 1/1300, and with the right items, you can control its nature and one of its IVs, which is always helpful. I've actually hatched a shiny pokemon using this method, and it takes forever and is really boring. Make sure you have a pokemon with flame body to make the eggs hatch more quickly.

Luckily for you, some pokemon hatch more quickly than others (Dratini takes forever, for example), and I bet Swinub is one of the faster ones.

What would be the setup for getting high attack IV and an Adamant nature?

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Female adamant Pokémon and both with high attack IVs.

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Also put a Power Bracer on the Male (or Ditto), that way the attack IV will be passed.

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The Masuda Method. Find a regular Swinub and breed it with a foreign language pokemon, and your chances drop from 1/8200 to 1/1300, and with the right items, you can control its nature and one of its IVs, which is always helpful. I've actually hatched a shiny pokemon using this method, and it takes forever and is really boring. Make sure you have a pokemon with flame body to make the eggs hatch more quickly.

Luckily for you, some pokemon hatch more quickly than others (Dratini takes forever, for example), and I bet Swinub is one of the faster ones.

What would be the setup for getting high attack IV and an Adamant nature?

Finding a Japanese (can be anything except English, but Japanese is far and away the most common) pokemon that can breed with a Swinub that has adamant will be easier than finding a Japanese pokemon that can breed wtih a Swinub that has a 31 attack IV, so find a Japanese father with adamant and give it an everstone. Then find an English female Swinub with 31 attack IV and give it a power bracelet, and then?

Breeding.

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Does Ditto count as the Female if the swinub is male?

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MarvelousGerbil posted...
Does Ditto count as the Female if the swinub is male?

Yep.

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Is there an easy way to find out what IVs it has?

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If you used it before, no.

Otherwise go find an IV calculator, write its base stats and nature, make it gain a level with a rare candy, write the new values, repeat until you get like 10 level ups and then you're good to go.

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MarvelousGerbil posted...
Is there an easy way to find out what IVs it has?

If it has no EVs yet, use this site.
http://www.serebii.net/games/iv-calcdp.shtml

If you already battled with it at all but failed to keep track of its EVs, I'm afraid not. There's a way to learn vague numbers in-game at the Battle Subway building, but nothing specific.

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(By using it I mean fighting stuff with it)

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Allright, see you in a month it would appear ;_; Gamefreak is the biggest troll company ever.

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Why don't you do something more rewarding like 100%ing Disgaea 1?

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paperwarior posted...
Why don't you do something more rewarding like 100%ing Disgaea 1?

I can't watch Netflix while I 100% Disgaea 1.

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One more thing, I want to give it Stealth Rock and Icicle Crash,

http://serebii.net/pokedex-bw/egg/221.shtml#iciclecrash

Is this possible? I don't think it is...

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According to that page it's possible with Smeargle. Smeargle can learn anything.

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From: MarvelousGerbil | #014
I'm a bit unusually lucky with Pokemon... I've got 3 Shinys (besides Gyarados and the Gerbils) and Pokerus twice. Shinies were Noctowl (Crystal), Illumise (Emerald), and Boldore (White)

My wife once found 3 shinies in one week. I think she has 7 total.

I myself have only ever seen 2, one in Silver (Machop; caught it) and Ekans (HeartGold; no pokeballs :/). The span between those two sightings was about 9 years, and I haven't seen one since.

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Smeargle is the biggest double edged sword of legit pokemon training, so many possibilities, but such a pain in the ass all the same.

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Find a Japanese male adamant Smeargle and teach it the moves you want.

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Can Smeargle learn stuff via pvp or just against computer opponents.

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